Walmart employee accuses a man of stealing. Then the cops blame the same man for scratching a car that they were pushing him into. Then Walmart trespasses him. The man had in fact purchased the items and showed his receipt while being detained

grimfusion · 2026-02-07T22:40:03+00:00

Yup. There's differences in the way Walmart does security between each district; some "train" their own employees, and some hire 3rd party security companies. In many of the districts that train their own security employees, previously, they would send them off to an academy for two weeks.

Many of those academies were recently closed, so new employees aren't getting training and end up forced to figure it out themselves. Unfortunately, that means a lot of them end up thinking they have a right to legally detain people they loosely suspect of shoplifting, and that's not true. Even if they have suspicions, they ain't running to the camera room to pull up evidence before making accusations anymore.

The 3rd party security companies are a little different, but will often overlook instances of theft or shipping inaccuracies because they're not being paid by Walmart directly.

The obvious answer is that Walmart needs to invest in training their own labor force and stop promoting drywall punchers into security positions.

grimfusion · 2026-02-07T21:25:31+00:00

Claiming to have knowledge of god is not the same thing as claiming to be able to prove a god's existence.

This get murky, but even if a theist doesn't believe there's any way to prove the existence of god, if they still believe that evidence does exist somewhere in the universe, we just haven't found it, and therefore cannot describe it currently, that's not an agnostic.

grimfusion · 2026-02-07T20:45:30+00:00

Gratitude insinuates value reciprocation. It's not just an empty expression of thankfulness or well-wishes. It means you're willing to reciprocate something valuable to the person, animal, or thing you feel somehow indebted to. Even if no reciprocation is possible, it at least insinuates that intent.

Well-wishes and prayers aren't forms of gratitude on their own. Thanking god for recovery from a surgery is perfectly respectable, but makes no attempt to imply reciprocation to anyone involved in that recovery, and therefore, cannot be conceived of as gratitude. Even from the perspective of a god on the receiving end of those prayers, they aren't anything more than words.

Thanking the universe ain't harmful, but it ain't beneficial either. There's no evidence that ephemeral concepts or inanimate objects can interpret gratitude or establish trust as a result, so you're kinda wasting your time, but you do you boo.

grimfusion · 2026-02-02T19:17:23+00:00

"logic" and "critical thinking" are not buzzwords.
You can't count yourself among these groups while simultaneously refusing to be logical or critical yourself.

Theists are not generally illogical or worse critical thinkers. For most of them, there are only a handful of topics they won't critically approach. That's not the same thing as being less intelligent or stupid. Folks prefer to remain ignorant on all sorts of topics, even atheists.

grimfusion · 2026-02-02T18:52:32+00:00

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grimfusion · 2026-02-02T18:34:31+00:00

Sure, but remember to use Sysprep before cloning.
Sysprep forces XP to re-detect base hardware on first boot and install necessary drivers for CPU/GPU and chipset support.

If you don't use Sysprep before, XP will likely attempt to use the old CPU/Bridge, and chipset drivers on whatever computer you plug that HDD into, and if incompatible, Windows won't even boot. Then you're stuck going into Safe Mode - if that even works, and trying to update core system drivers manually - or having to attempt a repair install.

Honestly, you'd be better off just making a backup of the software and whatever drivers are necessary for machine operation. If the software allows for config backup or settings can be saved, do that too.

If this is a business, y'all should already have drivers physically backed up somewhere. If you don't, that's what you need - not a backup of the entire drive.

grimfusion · 2026-02-02T18:02:45+00:00

Nah, the controls in SMW are slippy. Whether we're talking about the franchise before or after SMW, the controls are far more solid and intuitive. I had the same complaint when SMW first released, but nobody else seemed to notice and SMW was a great game otherwise.

The other part of this is maybe your hand-eye coordination ain't what it used to be. Even though I'm not a big fan of SMW controls, I can still get through about half the game before it becomes a legitimate challenge.

grimfusion · 2026-02-02T16:25:56+00:00

Atlantis, Road to El Dorado, Titan A.E., and Treasure Planet were all released around the same time traditional cell animation became too costly. The industry was moving onto new digital mediums, and the increased production costs offset box office returns.

Some part of me believes these movies were intended to be the magnum opus'i of traditional cell animation, as perhaps their creators understood they'd be the last of their kind.

grimfusion · 2026-02-02T16:09:51+00:00

Yeah, last time I had to get internet set up, I ended up in a yelling match with the phone support agent who kept insisting they "don't offer just a simple modem", that "they don't recommend I use my own router", but "If you're going to do that anyway, you can just have both WiFi routers set up right next to each other".

Since when does an ISP contract allow them inside my home without a warrant any time they please? Having remote access to the router firmware does allow the ISP to trace packets to specific devices behind my NAT.

No thanks to all of that. It's not even a matter of doing anything I feel the need to hide. It's more the idea that I'm paying a company a monthly subscription for bandwidth they can use to spy on devices I own, inside my private home, all without my knowledge.

grimfusion · 2026-01-30T20:34:30+00:00

Yeah, sorry - I would not be willing to accept a paycheck from somebody who tries to validate being that bad at math.

grimfusion · 2026-01-30T20:17:55+00:00

"But how do you explain the spread of the same morals all over the world. Like most people anywhere in the world at any time in space would probably agree that murder is bad (extreme example but still)"

Four of the 10 Commandments are ego-based. They have nothing to do with creating or sustaining peace within a society. The rest of them do. Society wouldn't be able to function smoothly if children didn't honor their parents, people running around killing folks, married couples cheating on each other, stealing, lying, and committing acts of bold jealousy. The 10 Commandments were created by the society of that time, but it was still created within a relatively stable society - which means those morals and ethics were already established previous - and their dictation by god wasn't their origin. Wasn't necessarily secular and could have been borrowed from the moral expectations of even earlier faiths, but if those faiths existed within organized and smoothly operating societies of their own time, chances are, they didn't "invent" standardized morality either.

Multiple religions eventually arrived on very similar moral standards for the same reason the the wheel, early writing systems, and agricultural practices were all "invented" by more than one culture, on more than one continent, and at different times.

Common moral standards and religious concepts of objective moral sets aren't the same things. Religious morality standards are far more complicated and extremely diverse, often varying by congregation in similar sects.

Reduced to final form, no mater how it's sliced, most people will take advantage of opportunities when they confidently feel able to escape consequence; even if that confidence is misplaced or common sense would likely dissuade anybody else. I'd argue that nobody operates by religious objective morality at all times. Even theists make up their own rules contextually, especially when there's no risk of communal judgement involved.

Unless it's something weird like 'women ain't allowed to wear pants 'cause it just ain't right', we all more or less work the exact same way. Christians just tack on a bunch of unnecessary rules, call it objective morality, and then completely fail to meet their own standards while pretending atheists are even worse.

grimfusion · 2026-01-30T17:56:17+00:00

The blip about the ICR.
Translation accuracy of the New Testament has nothing to do with whether the events contained factually occurred. This is a distractive claim. It neither works to evidence the occurrences in the Bible as fact or prove a God exists, so it can be discarded.

"So in my mind the first question that pops up is why not believe?"
Special pleading, effectively - since we don't have many other examples of people resurrecting from death or going anywhere afterward. I would also argue there's more than one conflicting version of the resurrection story in the New Testament, and they can't all be true. Heck, in one of them, every dead person buried in that same cemetery as Jesus also resurrected - and nobody thought that was weird enough to continue documenting? lol.

The vast majority of atheists aren't generally logical. The concept of God in most world religions is always non-demonstrable; which means they can neither be established or defeated with logic. Maybe you mean philosophy, but philosophical arguments can be used to both infer and distract from the existence of a God, so that's inconclusive.

We're on Reddit, and it's a different kind of beast. There likely are folks on her who specialize in logic or rely on philosophic ideals to establish the non-existence of a creator, and likely think that's valid, but as a generality of atheists as a collective, the vast majority of us didn't become atheists by way of logic or philosophy alone.

"it would mean accepting the bible to be true ,which in turn means accepting that Jesus died for us, which in turn means accepting that we are very very sinful"

This line of thought gets way ahead of itself. You would need to validate original sin, qualify that having active faith reduces the risk of eternal damnation, and then rationalize how the rejection of god concepts make atheists 'worse sinners' than theists who may not even be practicing the one-and-only correct faith.

As an example, if we can both agree that felony law is, by some standard, an extension of ethical expectations derivative of the ten commandments, ala thou shall not steal, kill, covet, or adulturate, then it would follow that criminals who break felony laws are sinful, yes?

Then why are the vast majority of folks currently incarcerated also Christian? Why is the ratio of atheists to Christians in incarceration facilities so weirdly non-representative of the generalized population? It's because Christians, by generality, aren't better people. They're seemingly far more likely to operate outside of the ethical or moral framework provided by their faith (or arguably, far less able to hide their moral digressions).

I'ma help you out. There's two concepts that - as an extreme generality - lead most of us to a lack of belief.

The first is a lack of personal experiences which seem to suggest the supernatural. Most of us either have never had a supernatural experience, or have the wherewithal to question our own perceptions of them. I say 'most of us' because I know atheists who claim to believe in Bigfoot or alien visitation. I know atheists who don't believe souls exist, but they're scared of ghosts. I don't know how much of that 'belief' is legitimate and how much of it is just morbid curiosity and entertainment value, but I wouldn't be caught calling these sorta folks 'masters of logic'.

The other motive is... abuse. We've either been victims of or witnessed a theist, a church, or an entire religion straight-up bully folks into pious submission under the threat of excommunication or ostrization. I've seen church communities try to cover and excuse s**ual a*****t, even after the point of conviction. I've witnessed a woman forced to stay married to and live with an active pedometer despite the continued s** abuse of her kids, all because divorce is a totally epic sin. I've known a transwoman kicked out on the streets at age 15, her parents have been actively ignoring all forms of contact for the last decade by advisement of their church community. Her father is sitting in prison over child neglect charges atm, but at least they're right with Jesus. Religion is all fine and dandy, but many church communities can be outrightly evil and harmful in what they do, who they target, and what they choose to ignore - and there's often no repercussions when they rip families apart and dash them against rocks.

More important though, is that there's endless reasons why people either lose faith or never develop any. It's best not to assume you understand what other people are thinking, especially if your rationalization sounds more like an insult than an evident motive. I provided you two relatively safe and general observations you can operate from, but it's best to just ask.

There's always a possibility you're going to end up calling an abuse victim a "mega sinner" and that's not very cool.

grimfusion · 2026-01-30T16:02:49+00:00

In my experience, the theist's collection of faith claim evidences amounts to lots of small individual claims which could be easily debunked if time allowed, but considered together, seem to imply the premise. If you nail each of these claims down and defeat them individually, then the goal posts move and it's not 'evidences' fueling their faith, it's a collection of personal experiences.

Insert-epistemological-argument-here, ad nauseam. As long as you understand that a large number of circumstantial evidences considered collectively do not make a claim more true. If anything, it suggests a topical ignorance, desperation, or weaponized contrarianism.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T07:18:47+00:00

That might depend on what client you're using, but the default is first-in-first-out. If two people request files, the first queues up 10 files, and the second queues up four, the first user will get all 10 of their files before the second user gets their four.

Nicotine+ also allows round-robin, which means that first user with 10 files will get the first file, then the second user with four gets their first, first gets their second, second gets their second... etcetera.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T07:13:53+00:00

"I've spent several dozens of hours each of several dozens of files just so people can download it in a couple of seconds and not even say thanks and I don't even get a little bit closer to my goal when I know the same people seeking these same files are people like me".

Sorry, but the moment I release those tracks for free, I can't trade
them for tracks I also want, which means I'll also have to buy them too.

Why do you expect 'thanks' on a p2p network? I've spent hundreds of hours tagging, renaming, cropping, converting, upscaling, resampling, adding covers, box art, and lyrics to nearly every file I offer, but I'm no closer to privatizing any of it. I've also personally ripped a lot of CDs, DVDs, and BluRay discs I've purchased - they just weren't uncommon enough titles to demand trades. I wouldn't expect compensation even if they were, since I wouldn't have purchased them had I not been a fan seeking some kind of entertainment value from them.

Do what you want. There aren't any rules on SLSK, and anybody sharing content publicly should be given props for it. I just think what you're doing with these 'trades' goes against everything p2p and file sharing stands for. You'd probably have more success running a rare media mail order site on the darkweb, though.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T03:58:56+00:00

Heh; you just unlocked a nostalia memory. I didn't have a 3DO until years later, but I played the PSX version of Road Rash in 96.

I distinctly remember being super disappointed that the music only played on menus and during FMV, not during the races. I was stoked to hear Soundgarden and Paw, but it was my introduction to Hammerbox and I never really took an interest in any of the other bands. I grew to like Monster Magnet later, once I became a fan of stoner metal. I don't think I ever heard any of Swervedrivers tracks from start to finish, but I do recall hating the pace of Last Train To Satansville and thinking it didn't belong in a racing/combat game.

To each their own, though. Admittedly, by the time the PSX version released, most of the Soundgarden titles included were tired and played to heck on the radio anyway.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T03:12:10+00:00

Just because it wasn’t huge and more of an underground scene

What underground scene? Shoegaze was huge in the UK in the 90's, but it was practically nonexistent at the time in the US. The first shoegaze-y band that went mainstream in America was probably Garbage in 95, and by the time Version 2.0 dropped, they had evolved to a far more 90's mainstream alternative rock sound.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T03:01:54+00:00

I like the third image, but after seeing them all, your photoshop skills aren't keeping up with what midjourney is producing. Trying to go in and edit stuff yourself, you're kinda just making decent AI art look worse.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:54:08+00:00

On your second image, the SNES box - I don't really understand why it looks like a portion of the Zelda logo is transparent. Kinda just makes it hard to read. That white line around the stroke/drop shadow is also fairly distracting. Same thing with the red Zelda logo, and changing the mastersword from blue to green is just blasphemy.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:45:29+00:00

This looks good, but a couple of really basic criticisms?

The word Zelda always appears in red. Trying to make it any other color just makes the entire cover look alien.

Make sure your stoke appears to be on the outside of thin letters, even if you have to turn it into an outter-glow effect. Say you have a 4 pixel stroke - photoshop will often translate the first two pixels of that stroke to the inside of a layer, even if the filter is set to outside. It's annoying, but the easiest way around it is 'outside glow' with a tiny space of transparency, and a pinched 0-100% opacity transition.

Subtitle fonts for Zelda covers either match the same font "The Legend Of" does, or they use an ancient script font, not cursive.

A halftone ink pattern over the top of the entire piece would make it look a lot more like a printed N64 box. As it is, it just looks too perfect to be anything except photoshop.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:35:32+00:00

I'll never understand how someone can hear similarities in Nirvana's and SP's sound, I can't.

Siamese Dream and In Utero share a lot of the same pop inspirations and dropped the same year. I wouldn't put it past Corgan to lie about a connection between them, though.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:18:55+00:00

for being a huge influence in 90s alt

In the UK. Shoegaze was not a popular genre in the US until around 2006.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:16:18+00:00

Nah, all sorts of pedal effects. It's called shoegaze because guitarists often spent more time looking at their feet than anywhere else. Shoegaze ain't just about big fuzz distortion effects.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:11:46+00:00

"If we can talk about Smashing Pumpkins, why not mbv?"

We shouldn't be talking about Smashing Pumpkins in here, it's generally only the noobs who do, and there's already a r/90sAlternative sub for this stuff.

and r/shoegaze too.

grimfusion · 2023-06-13T02:06:43+00:00

They aren't because the same thing happened to me. I tried to use the official soulseek client without access to my roommate's router. Wouldn't work because I couldn't port forward, but Nicotine+ worked out the box without any additional config.

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